Language, Identity and Urban Space : The Language Use of Latin American Migrants
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Sprache - Identitaet - Kultur
ISBN-10
3631652259
ISBN-13
9783631652251
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Imprint
Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 31st, 2014
Print length
368 Pages
Weight
600 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 15.50 x 2.90 cms
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This book analyses and compares the language use of Spanish speaking migrants in Lima and Madrid through corpora and uses a feature pool approach to language contact that is based on principles of linguistic ecology. It defines the interrelations of language and identity constitution and discusses the question of migrants’ cultural integration.
Migration as a process has achieved increasing attention in the context of nation-states and globalisation. In linguistics the field of language contact is particularly associated with this phenomenon. This book investigates the connection between language usage, migration, space, in particular urban space, and the constitution of cultural identity. Two corpora of Andean migrants Spanish conversations in Lima and in Madrid are analysed. The resulting comparative analysis provides the material for considerations on language contact, code copying, discourse strategies etc. Throughout the book a new theoretical approach based on linguistic ecology is used. It includes the concept of a general expanded feature pool, which is the basis for language use and identity constitution for migrants.
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